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What Are the Politics of Boredom? (Ballard 2003 Remix)

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Fisher, M. (2018). What Are the Politics of Boredom? (Ballard 2003 Remix). In Fisher, M. K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher. Repeater, pp. 57-62

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The moment at which Ballard's 'new proletariat' ('furnished with private schools and BMWs') become real political actors is when they cease to pursue their own class interests. Only then can they come to the Marxist revelation that bourgeois class interests are in no one's interests.

—p.60 by Mark Fisher 5 years, 3 months ago

The moment at which Ballard's 'new proletariat' ('furnished with private schools and BMWs') become real political actors is when they cease to pursue their own class interests. Only then can they come to the Marxist revelation that bourgeois class interests are in no one's interests.

—p.60 by Mark Fisher 5 years, 3 months ago

(psychoanalysis) the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea

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the explicit de-cathexis of the "nice house, nice family" picture that bourgeois culture is still capable of projecting as ideal

—p.61 by Mark Fisher
notable
5 years, 3 months ago

the explicit de-cathexis of the "nice house, nice family" picture that bourgeois culture is still capable of projecting as ideal

—p.61 by Mark Fisher
notable
5 years, 3 months ago